Xenix reliability (Was: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3)

[Peter da Silva]

In article ... woods at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) writes about how
HP systems are more reliable than UNIX:

Some guy at rpp386 said:
> >thirty one days looks like reliable to me.

> Not to me.  Besides, how is that system used?  ...
> It didn't do a lot of database stuff,
> it didn't use IPC intensly, it didn't do high-speed communications...

Well, I dare say that the HP systems that you're comparing UNIX to are
doing a heavy-duty job mix of accounting and word-processing software:
the sorts of things that you're denigrating rpp386 for.
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